id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,component,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
38,"PySyck handles non-alphanumeric strings as references, others not",thomas@…,xi,"{{{
>>> 'a' is 'a'
True
>>> 'a.' is 'a.'
True
>>> syck.dump(['a', 'a'])
'--- \n- a\n- a\n'
>>> syck.dump(['a.', 'a.'])
'--- \n- &id001 a.\n- *id001\n'
>>>
}}} 

the first two commands show that python itself doesn't distinguish.
This is especially problematic since the second case produces a segmentation fault when using syck-0.55-r3 (and surely other older versions).",defect,closed,normal,pysyck,major,worksforme,str,